Payroll in Australia is a complex and high-risk area for organisations, with mistakes potentially leading to significant financial and reputational consequences. Join Elly Maddy and Jacob Bosden from Protiviti for the one-hour session, as she unpacks the challenges, risks, and lessons learned from recent cases to help you strengthen your payroll governance and assurance practices.
In this session, we will cover:
- Why is payroll so hard to get right? – The complexities of payroll in Australia.
- Lessons learned from recent cases – Exploring where things went wrong and how to avoid similar pitfalls.
- Understanding organisational vulnerabilities of payroll and wages risk – Identifying where your systems and processes may be most at risk.
- Auditing employee payments – Key focus areas every internal audit team should have on their radar.
Who should attend:
- Compliance and risk professionals
Why attend:
- Gain practical insights from real-world examples
- Understand emerging risks and compliance obligations
- Strengthen your internal controls and audit approach
CPE hours: 1
Presented by: Elly Maddy, Director, Protiviti & Jacob Bosden, Associate Director, Protiviti
Elly Maddy is a Director at Protiviti, a global specialist internal audit firm. She has 13 years’ experience providing outsourced and co-sourced internal audit services to her clients. Elly has significant experience auditing complex payroll environments across the public and private sectors. This includes undertaking payroll recalculations, payroll process reviews and audits on associated processes such as rostering, recruitment, and employee onboarding.
Jacob is an experienced internal audit professional who understands the need to apply a practical risk based lens to payroll assurance. He has worked with clients to manage their payroll risks from multiple angles including implementation and configuration of payroll systems, assurance across day-to-day payroll, and managing wage remediations.
He understands the benefits and challenges associated with leveraging data to provide increased assurance for clients and has delivered and led numerous audit, assurance and risk services across a range of industries with a particular focus on Mining, Financial Services and Public Sector Clients.
He is a Certified Information System Auditor with ISACA and professional member of the Institute of Internal Auditors of Australia.